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Google’s Inbox application has a really nice ListView where user could swipe right to mark the email done and swipe left to snooze the notification. I implemented something very similar to that using ListView and ArrayAdapter.

The method that I used here is quite simple. I created a RelativeLayout which would be used to display each item of the listview. This RelativeLayout has three different layouts. Top layout is the one that you would want to show. Each layers are stacked. The second layer shows delete option. Third layer shows... Read More

Every app needs user data and facebook and twitter are the most convinient and used social networks to get the user data from. In our app, we have given the facility for the user to sign up and log in using their facebook or twitter credentials.

Facebook has a really great guide to get started with Facebook SDK for Android. You can find it here. We used this guide to build the basic authentication steps.

After registering your app with facebook, you can test your app. Facebook SDK for... Read More

ActionBar is a very important part of Android. We can use it for our advantage. We needed certain customization in the actionbar and to do it easily we just made a desirable layout and changed the style of the actionbar.

Design Layout

We just needed a simple actionbar with back button on the left, check button on the right and the title in the center. So we created a simple linear layout.